Tinhorn

"Tinhorn" -- he leaned heavily on the bar -- "when I feels lucky like this, I makes it a rule to crowd my luck.

'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

"Tinhorn" had no special reason for the act and it served no purpose; it was merely the instinctive act of the bully who strikes in wanton cruelty at something or somebody he knows cannot retaliate.

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

"'Tinhorn' thought it was some kind of a tony cuspidor, and a round-up cook offered me a dollar and a half for it to set bread sponge in."

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

"Tinhorn" in particular was disturbed because of their nearness.

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

"Maybe," he sneered, "I could get a job swamping in 'Tinhorn's' place -- washing fly specks off the windows and sweeping out."

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

"I've been blocked at every turn by the authorities and others, and now it's come straight from 'Tinhorn' himself -- the mayor."

The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

As "Tinhorn" lay prone he was shamed in vivid English by the graceful barber while the new plasterer excused himself from his partner long enough to kick the prostrate ingrate in the ribs.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

Tinhorn says: ...requiring that a potential passenger be allowed to revoke consent to an ongoing airport security search makes little sense in a post-9/11 world.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Airport Searches: 2007

The moral heroes decide that the only way to keep this from happening again is to make an example of the Tinhorn, and destroy the command center and a surrounding fifteen million people.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Why People Get Much Worse Government than they Deserve: 2007

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